ice cream

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noun
  1. a frozen food containing cream or milk and butterfat, sugar, flavoring, and sometimes eggs.

Origin of ice cream

1
First recorded in 1735–45

Words that may be confused with ice cream

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How to use ice cream in a sentence

  • They had been permitted to sit up till after the ice-cream, which naturally marked the limit of human indulgence.

  • At the old Rosewater dances we never had anything but cake and lemonade—ice-cream in very hot weather.

    Ancestors | Gertrude Atherton
  • As he sat there young Jim Hands drove up with his girl, alighted, and went into the ice-cream parlor for refreshment.

    Scattergood Baines | Clarence Budington Kelland
  • He drew forth from the package, which proved to be a box filled with chopped ice, a small brick of ice-cream.

    The Rival Campers | Ruel Perley Smith
  • We had sandwiches and chicken salad and olives and three kinds of cake and ice cream for refreshments.

    The Sunbridge Girls at Six Star Ranch | Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

British Dictionary definitions for ice cream

ice cream

noun
  1. a kind of sweetened frozen liquid, properly made from cream and egg yolks but often made from milk or a custard base, flavoured in various ways

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